Benjamin Gianni is an associate professor at Carleton University’s Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism and is the current coordinator of the Urbanism major. His research interests focus on the areas of housing and urban development. Of particular interest is public housing constructed in the decades following WWII in Europe and North America, and its redevelopment from the 1990s onward. His research also includes urbanization, suburbanization and a study of large-scale housing ensembles in contemporary China, questioning the legacy of modernism and its transposition to different cultural and temporal contexts. He teaches courses on housing and urban history, as well as leads the housing studio in the fourth year of the BAS program. He was a former Director of both the School of Architecture and the School of Information Technology at Carleton.
